Buzzards Bay conservation document to get update

The public is invited to comment on a new version of a 1991 document that addresses issues in the troubled Buzzards Bay watershed.

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Posted Dec. 7, 2012 at 2:00 AM
Updated Dec 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM

Posted Dec. 7, 2012 at 2:00 AM
Updated Dec 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM

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The public is invited to comment on a new version of a 1991 document that addresses issues in the troubled Buzzards Bay watershed.

The original Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan is a “landmark document” created in 1991 by the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program, according to program executive director Joseph E. Costa.

It is a “blueprint for the forthcoming efforts to protect and restore the water quality and living resources of Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed,” Costa said in a statement.

The document also addresses nitrogen loading, the need to create a wastewater management plan and climate change.

But a new document is required to reflect progress made in the past 21 years, as well as new and unresolved problems in Buzzards Bay, Costa wrote.

The new plan is available for comment at www.buzzardsbay.org/newccmp.htm. Eleven Massachusetts towns have coasts on Buzzards Bay, including much of the South Shore, Wareham, Bourne and Falmouth, according to the estuary program’s website.